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Asylum-seekers at the US-Mexico border worry about their next move: ‘We cannot return’
People at the border reel after hearing about Biden's order and consider the CBP One app, where they can go and what's nextAngel Ramos Giron was searching for a gap to breach the coils of concertina wire standing between him and the huge US fence near gate 36.The port of entry divides Ciudid Juarez in Mexico, where he stood on Tuesday afternoon looking towards El Paso, its sister city in Texas in the US. Continue reading...
‘Racial resentment’ a factor in violence of 6 January 2021, study says
Measurable in Trump supporters, psycho-social phenomenon can have consequences for democracy, authors sayPolitical observers are quick to blame hyperpartisanship and political polarization for leading more than 2,000 supporters of Donald Trump to riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.But according to a recently published study, racial resentment" - not just partisanship - explains the violence that broke out after the 2020 election. Continue reading...
Your brain sees sugar as a reward. But does that mean it’s addictive?
Most scientists say no, but some want ultra-processed foods, with sky-high sugar amounts, to count as addictive substancesPsychologist Ashley Gearhardt remembers one type 2 diabetes patient who acknowledged that eating pillowy Krispy Kreme doughnuts is devastatingly bad for her. Knowing that the donuts could worsen her disease didn't stop her from driving out of her way to secure a box of the sweets.Clearly, compulsivity is happening," said Gearhardt, a University of Michigan professor and one of the creators of the Yale Food Addiction Scale, a self-reporting tool that helps people find out whether they are at risk for food addiction. In her view, that inability to control an urge helps make the case that sugar is addictive. Continue reading...
High jinks, peer pressure, booze – and more booze: why do men behave so badly on stag dos? | Rich Pelley
It's one of the evolutionary puzzles of our species. Why (oh why) do we do it?The last hurrah? A collective show to the world of anarchic solidarity? A time to take stock, to be joyful, to be maudlin - perhaps all three? What is it about the stag do? They are mainly awful. More often than not, it's a random group of men, off the leash" from their families, who act like incapable children and - as soon as booze is on the menu - neanderthals. And things get worse when the dos are held abroad, usually somewhere sunny or a European city - any European city. Before long, you're not exactly sure what country you're in anyway.This means the drinking can start at the airport. Then the sun, cheap beer, language barrier and the sense of invulnerability can kick in, fuelling our terrible reputation as Brits abroad. Continue reading...
Starmer v Sunak: who came out top in the first leaders’ debate? Our panel’s verdict
The PM and Labour leader tussled on tax, Gaza and immigration. But did either man land a damaging blow?The debate format was poorly thought out. How can anything of substance be said in 45-second answers? On the questions that required longer responses - taxation, the cost of living crisis - there just wasn't enough time to get into any detail. But on immigration, the brevity was grimly revealing.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Caitlin Clark is no princess in a tower. Every hit is a strange compliment
The Indian Fever star has endured a brutal welcome to the professional ranks. But it was no different for the likes of Michael Jordan and Peyton ManningOn Monday the WNBA named Caitlin Clark its rookie of the month, a sweet reward for the 22-year-old that couldn't come at a tougher time.Since entering the league mere weeks ago as the top overall pick, Clark has not only been under pressure due to the outsized expectations that have come with her immense collegiate star status; she's had to do so while being guarded the length of the floor, running blindly into screens and losing nine of her first 11 games with the Indiana Fever, who have finished last in their conference for the last three seasons. Even though many close WNBA followers expected Clark wouldn't get by anywhere near as easily as she did at Iowa - not least former top pick Diana Taurasi, who a month ago warned, reality is coming" - that hasn't stopped Clark's legion of fans from taking the slights against her personally and attributing them to a wider league conspiracy to cut down their shiny new meal ticket. Continue reading...
Mike Lynch: four key takeaways from the fraud trial of ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’
Prosecutors called Lynch the driving force' behind Autonomy's missteps as the tycoon tried to humanize himself on the standA US jury has begun deliberating the fate of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch in a corporate fraud trial that began in March, as a years-long saga over a 2011 acquisition deal approaches its end.Lynch is charged with 15 counts of fraud, though originally he faced 16; one count of securities fraud was dismissed last week in a notable victory for his defense. Continue reading...
The far right may not win real power in Europe – but it will influence those who do | Cas Mudde
Polls predict huge gains for the far right in the European elections. But it is too fragmented to truly capitalise on themOn Thursday, the Dutch will be the first to go to the polls in the European elections, which are technically a collection of 27 national ballots held over the four days from 6 to 9 June. This is fitting, given that the last Dutch general election in November 2023, which produced a shocking landslide for the far right, has been defining the narrative of the 2024 European elections campaign". Although polls predict huge gains for the far right, its deep divisions mean the victory may prove to be a pyrrhic one.A much-cited report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) predicts that the combined far right will win roughly a quarter of the 720 seats in the new parliament. This would be an increase in support of some 4 to 5%, and is in line with a longer-term trend: the far right made big gains in the European elections of 2014 and 2019.Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today Continue reading...
Lily Yohannes, 16, opens USWNT account in friendly win over South Korea
US House passes ICC sanctions bill over Netanyahu arrest warrant request
Vote is Congress's first legislative rebuke of war-crimes court since ICC prosecutor's decision to seek arrests of leaders of Israel and HamasThe House passed legislation on Tuesday that would sanction the international criminal court after its chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.The 247-155 vote amounts to Congress's first legislative rebuke of the war-crimes court since prosecutor Karim Khan's decision last month to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas. The move was widely denounced in Washington, creating a rare moment of unity on Israel even as partisan divisions over the war with Hamas intensified. Continue reading...
Andy Kim wins Democratic primary in race for Bob Menendez’s Senate seat
Congressman bids to replace Menendez, who plans to run as independent despite being charged with accepting bribesDemocratic congressman Andy Kim has won New Jersey's Senate primary, putting him in strong position for the general election in the blue-leaning state, though the win comes a day after Democratic senator Bob Menendez filed to run as an independent amid his federal corruption trial.Menendez, who has denied allegations that he accepted bribes to promote the interests of the Egyptian government, has chosen not to seek the Democratic Senate nomination. Kim's win comes after a bruising battle that led New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy to withdraw from the race in March. Continue reading...
Arizona legislature overrules governor on proposal criminalizing non-citizens
Republicans succeed in push for ballot measure asking voters to make it a crime to enter US from Mexico outside a port of entryThe Republican-controlled Arizona legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a proposal asking voters to make it a state crime for non-citizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry, sending the measure to the 5 November ballot.The vote came as Joe Biden unveiled plans Tuesday to restrict the number of people seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border, saying: This action will help to gain control of our border, restore order to the process." Continue reading...
Keir wins the applause in the TV debate while the audience openly laughs at Tetchy Rish!
Rish!, under pressure, got snippy, continually talking over Starmer. It was a terrible lookIt was another night of broken sleep. Fever dreams of Nigel Farage tormented him. That wide crocodile smile. Siren promises to the disaffected. The narcissistic orange glow.Worse, Rishi Sunak had even woken to the man himself being interviewed by Mishal Husain on Radio 4. Would no one rid him of this turbulent fraud? Now Nige sounded irritable. Angry that someone was daring to ask him about policy details: not just blowing smoke up his arse. Continue reading...
Tucupita Marcano’s ban puts fine point on MLB’s alliance with gambling
Baseball's partnerships with sportsbooks inundate viewers with ads for sports betting. Is it any wonder the San Diego Padres infielder ended up getting hit with a lifetime ban?Major League Baseball has brought down the heaviest hammer in its arsenal. On Tuesday, the league issued a lifetime ban to the San Diego Padres' Tucupita Marcano after its investigation revealed he had repeatedly bet on Pittsburgh Pirates games while a member of that team.MLB said that Marcano placed 387 bets on baseball between 2022 and 2023, totaling more than $150,000 in wagers. Twenty-five of those bets were parlay wagers that included a bet on his own team to lose. Marcano placed them while he was injured and out of the lineup, and the league and player both deny that he manipulated any games. But it was all much too close for MLB's comfort, so the league permanently exiled the 24-year-old. MLB suspended four other players one year apiece for lower-tier gambling infractions. Those players bet smaller amounts on games not involving their own teams, though a few of them were minor leaguers who bet on their organization's major league teams. Nobody punished on Tuesday is a star player, and if MLB has its way, the stories will soon fade from the limelight. Continue reading...
Merrick Garland hits back at Trump and Republicans: ‘I will not be intimidated’
Attorney general defends stewardship of justice department and accuses Republican lawmakers of peddling conspiracy theoriesUS attorney general Merrick Garland has defended his stewardship of the justice department in a combative display on Capitol Hill that saw him accusing Republicans of attacking the rule of law while telling them he will not be intimidated."Testifying before the House judiciary committee, Garland accused GOP congressmen of engaging in conspiracy theories and peddling false narratives. Continue reading...
Democrats decry Biden executive order turning away some asylum seekers
US representatives Nanette Barragan, Judy Chu and Raul Grijalva say order guts legal rights, while ACLU threatens to sueProgressive Democrats and immigration advocates have shared their outrage after Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday that would turn away some asylum seekers.Biden's order will temporarily shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers attempting to enter the country legally when authorities have determined that the border is overwhelmed". Continue reading...
Biden issues order limiting asylum seekers from crossing US-Mexico border
President's move comes amid voter dissatisfaction over immigration as leftwing and Latino lawmakers express alarmJoe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that will temporarily shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers attempting to cross between lawful ports of entry, when a daily threshold of crossings has been exceeded.The order will take effect immediately, senior administration officials said on a press call. Those seeking asylum will be held to a much more rigorous standard for establishing credible fear of returning to their home country, although certain groups - including human trafficking victims and unaccompanied children - would be excluded from the ban. Continue reading...
‘The necessary steps to secure our border’: Biden defends decision to impose limits on asylum seekers – as it happened
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Trump-appointed judges strike down fund for Black female entrepreneurs
In a 2-1 ruling, judges found grant program run by Black-woman owned venture capitalist firm likely to violate' Civil Rights ActA US federal court of appeals panel has suspended Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based, Black woman-owned venture capitalist firm, from continuing the firm's Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, a grant program for Black female business owners.In the 2-1 ruling, the panel of three judges, two appointed by Donald Trump and one appointed by Barack Obama, ruled that the grant program is substantially likely to violate" section 1981 of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1866, which prohibits the use of race in making contracts. The act aimed to fully integrate formerly enslaved Black Americans as citizens, give them the full rights of American citizenship and to make it illegal to deprive any Americans of rights on the basis of race, color, or prior condition of slavery or involuntary servitude". Continue reading...
Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain
US president's remarks to Time magazine about PM's role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government
Nebraska funeral staff call 911 after discovering ‘corpse’ was still breathing
Worker called 911 when Constance Glantz, 74, was discovered to be breathing as staff were preparing her for her own funeralPolice in Lincoln, Nebraska, are investigating why a 74-year-old woman was pronounced dead but then found to actually be alive in a local funeral home on Monday.The town's firefighting and rescue teams responded to the Butherus-Maser & Love funeral home at 11.43am after the caller said CPR was being performed on what was initially thought to be the corpse of Constance Glantz. Continue reading...
The Guardian view on Mexico’s new president: a stunning victory for pro-poor politics | Editorial
Claudia Sheinbaum aims to continue the pursuit of social justice - her predecessor's most outstanding quality - without his charismaClaudia Sheinbaum made history this week by winning a landslide election to become Mexico's first female president. A leftwing climate scientist, Ms Sheinbaum appears a technocrat with progressive views, everything her presidential predecessor, the folksy populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as Amlo, was not.Yet the differences may be more about style than substance. Ms Sheinbaum has been by Mr Lopez Obrador's side for two decades, and has a deserved reputation for hard work, fidelity to her mentor and a thirst for social justice. One of the big questions for thenew president is whether her win will translate intomore political rights and protections for women, 11of whom are murdered a day. Continue reading...
Wisconsin attorney general charges three former Trump associates in plot to overturn 2020 election
Kenneth Chesebro, Jim Troupis and Michael Roman each charged with one felony count of forgery, according to court documentsWisconsin's attorney general, Josh Kaul, filed felony charges on Tuesday against three men who played a key role in the effort to appoint fake electors in the state as part of Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election.Kenneth Chesebro, Jim Troupis, and Michael Roman were each charged with one felony count of forgery, according to court documents. The crime is a class H felony punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 and up to six years in prison. Continue reading...
What the US asylum process is really like, in applicants’ own words: ‘I’ve waited 10 years’
As Biden launches the strictest border crackdown of his presidency, five asylum seekers share their battles to secure protection in the USOn Tuesday, Joe Biden unveiled the most restrictive immigration policy of his presidency with an executive order enabling the mass rejection of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border when crossings reach certain levels.The order would allow the US government to temporarily shut down the border when the number of people seeking entry exceeds a daily threshold, empowering authorities to automatically block migrants from presenting their asylum cases. The policy, which would significantly erode the rights of asylum seekers, appears to be one of the harshest immigration crackdowns pushed by any modern Democrat and mirrors the Trump administration's efforts to broadly limit entries en masse. Continue reading...
Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter, pleads guilty to stealing $17m from MLB star
Biden calls Trump ‘reckless and dangerous’ over claims trial was rigged
President also likens his predecessor's rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept he lost 2020 electionJoe Biden has called Donald Trump reckless and dangerous" over the former president's claim that the trial leading to last week's felony conviction in a Manhattan court was rigged.In his sharpest criticism yet of his predecessor's drive to undermine the legal integrity of the prosecution against him, the president also said a second Trump presidency would be a much greater threat to American democracy than his first. He likened Trump's rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading...
French Open quarter-finals: Sinner beats Dimitrov, Swiatek routs Vondrousova – as it happened
Jannik Sinner will be the new world No 1 after Novak Djokovic withdrew from the tournament due to a knee injuryA decent return from Gauff makes 30-15 but Jabeur is finding first serves, and though she's soon drawn into a net exchange, a tasty volley is good enough. The pot is boiling.Another terrific hold from Gauff who makes 40-0 then picks a drop, skidding in to flip a backhand pick-up cross-court for a clean winner. Things will change as the match progresses, but at the moment it looks like it'll turn on a point her or there. Gauff 3-2 Jabeur Continue reading...
Former mayor of South Dakota town charged with triple killing
Jay Ostrem, 64, reportedly became upset after his wife told him she was assaulted by a neighborA former small-town mayor charged with murder after a triple killing last week reportedly became upset before the deadly shooting because his wife told him that she had been assaulted by a neighbor.The details on the alleged apparent motive in the case came amid the most recent update on the shooting deaths that occurred the night of 27 May in the small town of Centerville, South Dakota, about 40 minutes outside of Sioux Falls, NBC News reported, citing court documents. Continue reading...
Bison gores elderly woman at Wyoming’s Yellowstone national park
National parks service says bison aren't agressive but will defend their space when threatened' after 83-year-old was woundedA bison gored and seriously wounded an elderly woman at Wyoming's Yellowstone national park over the weekend, rangers said.The attack occurred on 1 June near the Storm Point trail at Yellowstone lake, where the animal was defending its ground", according to a news release by the US national parks service (NPS). Continue reading...
Elon Musk is cosying up to Donald Trump. Haven’t we suffered enough? | Arwa Mahdawi
While their huge egos have rubbed each other the wrong way in the past, they may have found common groundWhat happens when two of the most influential and insufferable people in the universe join forces? Looks like we're about to find out. Rumour has it that Elon Musk is cosying up to convicted felon, adjudicated fraudster and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, in the hopes of securing a job in the White House.Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the pair speak on the phone several times a month, and have discussed a possible advisory role for Musk if Trump is elected president again. It's not clear what political pies Musk wants to stick his little fingers in: The role hasn't been fully hammered out," the WSJ said. But, according to people familiar with the talks", Musk might get a position advising on border security and the economy. Continue reading...
Padres’ Tucupita Marcano given lifetime MLB ban for betting on baseball
Hot Dog Money: behind the bribery scandal that rocked college basketball
A new book looks back at the federal investigation that found bribery and corruption within a major industry and the informant who was at the centerOn 26 September 2018, 10 prominent US college sports figures were arrested in connection with a federal investigation into fraud and corruption. Specifically, the government alleged that business managers and financial advisers had bribed basketball coaches to secure business with NBA-bound players, and that a senior executive with Adidas had further conspired with them to funnel payments to high school players and their families in exchange for their commitment to Adidas-sponsored college sports programs.The scandal - which ensnared the top NBA draft pick Deandre Ayton, hall of fame coach Rick Pitino and Kobie Baker, the associate athletic director at Alabama, one of the country's premier talent factories - was a black eye for the NCAA, the keystone cops who style themselves as virtuous defenders of amateurism in college sports while reaping billions off the backs of student-athletes, the majority of them Black and quite economically disadvantaged. The extent of the scheme wasn't fully understood until one of the schemers, a middle-aged moneyman named Marty Blazer, was turned into an FBI informant. There's a saying in law enforcement of being half a cop'," says true crime writer Guy Lawson, when you're the criminal but you start to think cops are cool. Marty became a motivated cooperator. He became an inventive one." Continue reading...
If the Washington Post is to fly again, its journalists must share the cockpit | Margaret Sullivan
New publisher Will Lewis's heavy-handed moves alienated a great staff
Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger | Rebecca Solnit
Our catastrophes have wrought psychic devastation. It's worth acknowledging that and trying to be kind to one anotherEverything is weird and everyone is wrecked. This is maybe the biggest and least acknowledged truth of life in the United States and a lot of places beyond right now. It's the pandemic; the eight years of Trumpism; the distortions, disruptions and corruptions Silicon Valley has promulgated and other looming menaces, including climate chaos. We all know this, because we're living it, but maybe we should talk more about the fact that our political catastrophes are inseparable from widespread psychic devastation, that the public and private, political and personal, are entangled - or rather that the former has wrought havoc on the latter.The wisest people I know are aware that the stresses, atrocities, divisions and divergences from norms of recent years have made them (and everyone else) exhausted and brittle. The less wise but no less brittle either lash out with the sense that what's wrong is definitely someone else or take refuge in cults and oversimplified versions in which they are at least in control of what it all means.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell's Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Continue reading...
China’s crackdown on Tiananmen memorials shows its obsession with security – and growing paranoia | Louisa Lim
Under Xi Jinping, national security has swallowed up all other state policies, and Hong Kong's activists are paying the priceHours after attending a 4 June vigil, a Chinese student overseas is contacted by her father, bearing a message from the security services: do not participate in activities that might harm China's reputation. In a London theatre, three British actors starring in May 35th, a play about the 1989 Tiananmen killings, keep their identities secret and use pseudonyms. They take this step after actors drop out of a previous Tiananmen-related production in Arizona due to perceived risks to family in China.Thirty-five years have passed since the People's Liberation Army opened fire on the Chinese people, yet Beijing seems more determined than ever to suppress acts commemorating the deaths of 4 June - even small ones far beyond China's own borders. Such repression appears irrational: its targets are not influential political figures, their actions are limited in reach and the acts of suppression affect basic freedoms in other countries far from China. Yet it is illustrative of the sea change at the heart of Xi Jinping's China. The man dubbed the chairman of everything" is transforming China into a security state whose top priority is the securitisation of everything, all the way down to the individual.Louisa Lim is the author of Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, and The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. She is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Melbourne Continue reading...
Michael Cohen’s family doxed in wake of testimony in Trump criminal trial
Former Trump fixer laments sad times we are living through' as addresses and phone numbers of wife and children posted onlineDonald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen has become the latest target of doxing efforts by supporters of the former president following Trump's conviction of criminally falsifying business records last week.According to Advance Democracy, the addresses and phone numbers of Cohen's wife and children were posted on a website on Monday, days after the non-profit group warned of a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting the New York judge Juan Merchan and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, each of whom played key roles in Trump's conviction. Continue reading...
Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him
Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked credible death threats' against him and his familyAfter Anthony Fauci appeared at a contentious US House hearing on Monday, the former top public health official who led the nation's response to Covid-19 singled out the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News as drivers of the credible death threats" that he described to lawmakers.Whether it's ... news media - you know Fox News does it a lot - or it's somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that ... the deaths of X number of people [were] because of policies or some crazy idea that I created, immediately, it's like clockwork: the death threats go way up," Fauci said in an interview with CNN. Continue reading...
UK bank Standard Chartered accused of helping to fund Iran and terrorists
Lender denies whistleblowers' claim transactions worth $100bn were carried out in breach of sanctionsWhistleblowers have claimed Standard Chartered allegedly carried out billions of dollars of previously undetected transactions for Iran-linked entities and terrorist organisations, according to a New York court filing.Two whistleblowers, who include a former executive at the British bank, filed a motion last week to set aside a judgment that dismissed an earlier lawsuit they filed, in an attempt to revive their efforts. Continue reading...
Carter says ‘one little clip’ does not define her after hard foul on Caitlin Clark
Louisiana legislature passes surgical castration law for sex offenders
If signed by governor, state could surgically castrate people convicted of sex crimes against children younger than 13 years oldLouisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved on Monday - and if the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signs it into law, the state apparently would be the first with such a punishment.The Republican-controlled state legislature passed the bill giving judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes - including rape, incest and molestation - against a child under 13. Continue reading...
First Thing: Biden to issue order on new restrictions at US-Mexico border
President's move comes amid voter dissatisfaction over migration, while progressive and Latino lawmakers express alarm. Plus, world's first personalized cancer vaccine halves the risk of death from melanomaGood morning.Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order on Tuesday that would instruct authorities to temporarily seal the border with Mexico when illegal crossings exceed a daily threshold, in the harshest border action taken so far by his administration.What's been the reaction? Many progressive and Hispanic lawmakers were alarmed at the comprehensive order, and legal challenges are expected.How does it work? The jab, which is personalized for each patient, instructs their body to kill any remaining cancer cells and stop the disease from returning. Continue reading...
DC targeted with harassing messages for allowing non-citizens to vote in primary
The city allows non-citizens to vote only in local elections, but Republicans have made it a central issue to stoke distrust in resultsIn a message left for the Washington DC board of elections on 1 May, a caller expressed anger at the city for allowing non-US citizens to vote in local elections.Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote?" the caller, who does not leave their name, said in a voicemail that the board of elections executive director, Monica Evans, played for the Guardian. This is the nation's capital. You are traitors. Traitors to your own country." Continue reading...
Stormy Daniels has never been cowed. And now, she is vindicated | Zoe Williams
What she has been through would sink most people. But the woman at the white-hot epicentre of Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions was always going to hold her nerveIn the opening scene of Stormy, the documentary about Stormy Daniels' life, she says: I have just been tormented for the last five years or so. And here I am, I'm still here." Probably the worst of the torment has been from Donald Trump's supporters, though they've never got together to explain what they're angry about. Is it that Daniels claims she had sex with Trump, in 2006? That she accepted $130,000 to keep quiet about it? Surely, if he's the richest and most virile man America ever produced, you'd think that was no big deal for him, and nice for her?Instead, as she described on the stand, giving evidence against Trump, the Maga lot have made her life a misery. Death threats layered with lurid threats of sexual violence, enough that she was constantly worried for the safety of her family, have poured in since 2018, when the Wall Street Journal first broke the story.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Republican who refused to certify Georgia primary a member of election denialist group
Julie Adams, who abstained from certifying May results, belongs to Election Integrity Network, founded by Trump ally Cleta MitchellA Republican on the Fulton county election board who refused to certify the May primary election is a member of an election denial activist network founded by Cleta Mitchell, a Trump ally who aided his efforts to overturn the election in Georgia and elsewhere.Julie Adams, who was appointed to the board in February, abstained from certifying the results of the May primary last month. Each of the other four board members, including the other Republican appointee Michael Heekin, voted for certification. No allegation of error or misconduct has been raised about the 21 May primary. Continue reading...
‘I like the chaos’: how Sophia Laukli became a world-class athlete in two sports
Last year the American won the Golden Trail Championship as a runner. A few months later she was winning a cross country skiing world cup raceFor most pro athletes, racing for 11 months each year in two different sports would be daunting, if not downright exhausting. For Sophia Laulki, it offers balance.During the winter, Laukli races for the US ski team in the FIS Cross Country World Cup. During the summer she competes in the Golden Trail World Series against the best short distance trail runners on the planet. In between, she allows herself the decadent luxury of an entire week off. Continue reading...
Don’t blame voters for a far right surge in Europe. Blame the far right’s mainstream copycats
Far right ideology has not changed, it has become normalised in the minds of voters, thanks to a snowball effectThis week, citizens of all 27 EU member states will begin to vote in the European parliament elections. One outcome seems inevitable: the far right will make significant gains. Polls suggest that the two groups in the European parliament that harbour far-right parties could secure about 20% of the seats, a fourfold increase since the early 1990s. In four of the six founding EU states, these parties lead in the polls.Where does this far-right success come from? One explanation is that far-right parties have become more moderate over the years, while voters have become more radicalised. Yet research indicates that this explanation does not make sense. On their core issues, such as immigration and anti-establishment politics, far-right parties are as radical as ever, and according to research, voters are no less trusting of their politicians and parliaments than they were three decades ago, no less satisfied with the workings of democracy, and their attitudes to immigration have remained relatively unchanged. What has changed is not their ideologies, but that parties and voters have been driven into each other's arms.Matthijs Rooduijn is a political scientist at the University of Amsterdam Continue reading...
Scarlett Johansson won’t save us from AI – but if workers have their say, it could benefit us all | Peter Lewis
Social media has taught us that technology is neither innately good or bad. AI must be approached with this same critical mindset
San Francisco police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters occupying Israeli consulate building
Authorities confirmed 70 people were taken in to custody, cited for trespassing and released after they refused to vacate' the premisesPolice on Monday arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate.Associated Press journalists saw police zip-tie the hands of about 50 people. Officers then put them in police vans and drove them away. San Francisco police later confirmed that 70 protesters were arrested and cited for trespassing after they refused to vacate the building". They have since been released from San Francisco county jail. Continue reading...
Benjamin Netanyahu set to address joint session of US Congress for fourth time
The Israeli PM's invitation comes amid deep differences with the Biden administrationBenjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first foreign leader to address a joint session of the US Congress four times, despite deep differences with the Biden administration.The Israeli prime minister's office said in a statement that a date for his address to Congress had yet to be set, but that it would not take place on 13 June as had been reported, due to a Jewish holiday. Continue reading...
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